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作者：Zatzick, CD; Elvira, MM; Cohen, LE
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This study examines the relationship between racial composition and individual, voluntary turnover for minorities (i.e., Asians, blacks, and Hispanics) in a large organization. We present a critical test for two sets of contrasting predictions. The first draws on similarity attraction, social contact, and social identity theories to suggest that working with racially similar others enhances the work environment in terms of perceived career opportunities, mentoring relationships, and network ti...
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作者：Nasrallah, W; Levitt, R; Glynn, P
作者单位：American University of Beirut; Stanford University
摘要：We present a mathematical model that predicts and explains the circumstances under which a management-defined communication structure can add value to an organization. This model provides a game-theoretical basis for contingent organizational design by relating empirical observations of real organizations to the solution of a rational choice model based on game theory. We constructed a multiple-player, noncooperative game in which players have full knowledge of, and universal communication acc...
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作者：Gibson, DE
作者单位：Fairfield University
摘要：While previous literature tends to focus on role models as significant other people, particularly in one's early life, this study finds that individuals tend to construe their role models as a selection process of attributes from others throughout their career. I discovered that individuals primarily construe their role models along positive/negative, global/specific, close/distant, and hierarchically superior/peer-subordinate dimensions, and that across the career span, the tendency to observ...
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作者：Romme, AGL
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：Mainstream organizational research is based on science and the humanities. Science helps us to understand organized systems, from an outsider position, as empirical objects. The humanities contribute to understanding, and critically reflecting on, the human experience of actors inside organized practices. This paper argues that, in view of the persistent relevance gap between theory and practice, organization studies should be broadened to include design as one of its primary modes of engaging...
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作者：Hannan, MT; Pólos, L; Carroll, GR
作者单位：Stanford University; Eotvos Lorand University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：This article develops a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change. It concentrates on changes in an organization's architecture, depicted as a code system. It models the common process whereby an initial architectural change prompts other changes in the organization, generating a cascade of changes that represents the full reorganization. The main argument ties centrality of the organizational unit initiating a change to the total time that the organization spends reorga...
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作者：Bansal, P
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：In this research, we traced the development of natural environmental issues in two organizations in real time over the period of a year. Participant observations, discussions with organizational members, and corporate documents yielded insights used to develop a model describing issue flows in both organizations. With this model, we identified the factors that influenced the scope, scale, and speed of organizational response to issues. Our methods provided insights into why issues generated or...
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作者：Thornhill, S; Amit, R
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Systematic differences in the determinants of firm failure between firms that fail early in their life and those that fail after having successfully negotiated the early liabilities of newness and adolescence are identified. Analysis of data from 339 Canadian corporate bankruptcies suggests that failure among younger firms may be attributable to deficiencies in managerial knowledge and financial management abilities. Failure among older firms, on the other hand, may be attributable to an inabi...
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作者：Pitsis, TS; Clegg, SR; Marosszeky, M; Rura-Polley, T
作者单位：University of Technology Sydney; University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Technology Sydney
摘要：In this paper we investigate a uniquely complex organizational context-that of the fast-tracked large-scale project management of a significant piece of Sydney 2000 Olympic infrastructure, which we researched in terms of its management through the future perfect. In a grounded analysis we resolved to track how the future perfect developed in the life of one large, complex project whose uniqueness meant that it was unable to be strategically planned in advance. We tracked the use of what we ter...
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作者：Pentland, BT
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：This paper introduces the concept of sequential variety as a way to measure variability in the sequence of steps used to perform a work process. There is reason to expect that such variability may influence a range of outcomes, such as flexibility and quality. Two alternative ways to operationalize sequential variety are demonstrated and compared to traditional measures of task variety in four task units. The findings provide empirical support for treating sequential variety as a distinct cons...
